hourly-archive

The goal is to have a few days of hourly builds from the Firefox trunk, so that regressions can be pinned down to a smaller group of checkins than is possible with the nightlies. The files are named YYYYMMDD_hhmm_firefox-... based on the time the build started (Mozilla time, PST/PDT). A "_N_" is added between the timestamp and original filename for builds which are clobbers (complete rebuilds, ie nightlies, "respins"). See the matching Cached Checkins link for a list of fixes in each build, or use the Bonsai Query link to ask for them live. An html file of cached checkins and an .url file for the live query are added to the zip files.

Currently we are watching the tinderbox fx-win32-tbox on the Firefox tree, and getting builds from the hourly dir on the ftp, supplemented with nightly builds if required (an hourly isn't pushed to ftp on the nightly run).

Known issues:

None

Limitations:

Vulnerable to the same mid-checkin issues as tinderboxen, so only part of a set of changes are picked up
The bonsai query used to test for checkins also returns changes in mail/ and other places that aren't part of the Firefox build. So some builds may appear to contain changes when they do not - inspect the checkins.html file before downloading a build.

Recent changes:

2007-09-04: fxnewref-win32-tbox changed name to fx-win32-tbox, same for fxnewref-linux-tbox but missed a few builds.
2007-08-15: win32 tinderbox changed to fxnewref-win32- using MozillaBuild & VC8 SP1 from 2349 build.
2007-07-21: Linux box changed to fxnewref-linux-tbox from fx-linux-tbox 9 days ago, will rebuild again.
2007-06-27: Linux box changed to fx-linux-tbox from argo-vm two weeks ago, archive will rebuild slowly.
2007-02-11: Split the platforms out to their own pages to improve page load time. Win32 is the default platform.
2007-02-01: Support Linux and Mac as well as Win32.

Contact: Nick Thomas (IRC: nthomas, email: nrthomas at gmail.com)